god. american whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport as russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive. despite snowden's revelations on britain's spying operations the u.k. financial chief announces a three percent boost in funding for the country's intelligence agencies in the name of fighting global terrorism. and lackluster u.s. support for africa and washington's military stand in the region overshadow barack obama's visit to his father's native continent.

good morning it's nice to have you company you're watching with me and very far. now america's most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to be in there since sunday the national security agency leaker has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the request so let's go live now to artie's paul scott who is at the airport for us. paul is there any sign of this saga ending what's the latest. this five day. coming to an end. to believe that edward snowden remains in transit in the airport terminal building behind me in some kind of limbo it seems now as soon as he landed from hong kong on sunday almost immediately but he was

having problems with his paperwork the suggestion being that he either had an invalid russian visa or no russian visa toll which means he was unable to cross the border into russian territory we also know that america has revoked his passport which makes it doubly difficult for him to exit the country meaning he is stuck in limbo in transit at the moment we do know that the issue of his passport being revoked can be overlooked wiki leaks are claiming that he does have something that's been granted by the ecuadorian government called a refugee document of passage which wiki leaks claim should give him basically safe haven towards ecuador it should leave him free to travel between countries even though his passport has been revoked now we were expecting him to fly in cuba on monday that was expected to be his next point on his way to quito to ecuador on to political asylum but as we well know he wasn't on monday's flight tough the world.

wasn't there are suggestions and rumors that he could be on today's flight. which leaves at two o'clock this afternoon or five crossed parties arena will be on board just in case edward snowden is there for the latest at the moment that he's in limbo in transit in the airport terminal building behind me a most american trying to do it a moment to get him back to get them man. while america desperately trying to get hold of them and he has been charged under the espionage act and faces a hefty jail. sentence if he is returned to the united states if he is tried and if he is found guilty defense secretary chuck hagel has gone as far as to say that his actions in exposing the n.s.a. surveillance operation has jeopardized u.s. security some are saying his actions i was as bad as treason by washington could barely hide their anger at the chinese authorities of course for letting edward snowden leave hong kong that trying to put the pressure on russia the russians to

hand him over despite the fact there is no extradition agreement between the two countries and. suggesting that in fact to grant him political asylum economic ties between the two countries could be severely affected so america really trying to put the pressure on the rest of the world to try and get them out and what's russia's response to this of them and what is their stocks . for russia appear to be playing it very much by the book they're suggesting as i say vladimir putin saying there is no way extradition agreement between the united states and between russia is the absolutely no responsibility for them to handed back money preaching saying he has committed no crime in russia and he is a free man and of course this is all academic really at the moment because he remains in transit and hasn't stepped foot in russia so he doesn't come under russian jurisdiction at the moment so any talk of an extradition deal between the

two countries is academic one footnote to this we are expecting ecuador to be his final destination but venezuela's president has come out in the last few hours few as well and he said that they would likely grant him asylum if he were to appeal for it in venezuela so a further twist ecuador isn't necessarily edward snowden only option at the moment and just one final point. what's life like in the transit i mean what sort of support is edward snowden receiving there at the moment. when he's not traveling alone he's getting support from the whistle blowing website wiki leaks he does have a truck travel companion a legal representative by the name of sarah traveling with him and we're led to believe that she is with him at all times in the transit zone and traveled with him from hong kong as well wiki leaks also say that they have hired him a lawyer about identity about lawyer is not yet known but it's not just wiki leaks who are providing time to tangible support for edward snowden amnesty international

have come out as well saying that nobody should be charged under any law for disclosing human rights violation. by the u.s. government so he's getting tangible support from wiki leaks but also getting backing from elsewhere ok thank you for that r.t.s. paul scott live from sheremetyevo airport in moscow thank you. a russian human rights activists as you heard there have lashed out against washington's aggressive pursuit of a thirty year old blower artie's. spoke to some of them. while the world decides where the edward snowden is hero or villain russia's human rights activists have clearly made their minds up it's not too often they see eye to eye with russia's president but they welcome to put his decision not to extradite the former n.s.a. employee still outraged by washington st mint of the whistleblower the ask more school to take more than just a neutral stand. that says it's

a good citizen in the current situation russia has to do everything in its power to aid snowden he cites for those exact principles that the u.s. doubts that in fact transgression. here i think russia should now act according to the law to not let the man be led like a lamb to slaughter. the head of russia's anti-corruption committee went even further to you come on of says he's ready to write a letter to putin urging him to keep snowden in russia. sprint the fact that he has no passport let him go to those countries that are willing to accept him we cannot act like a weak country that understands exactly what's going on but at the same time says no stay away from this. edward snowden has never asked for political asylum in russia but with heavy support coming from the human rights camp you couldn't rule out a positive response from the kremlin if he did his active asylum pleas are still pending a decision from ecuador and venezuela snowden himself was still presumably sitting

tight inside more schools airport which leaves a lot of space for more twists and turns to this saga former officers of security services describe the man as snowden as a gift to the intelligence they usually use for an exchange between countries but with such strong reaction coming from russia's human rights activists many agree that extra dieting snowden now would be like shooting oneself in the foot let's see russia reporting from moscow watch out solenn to publish the trends journal thinks that snowden's revelations have confirmed what many have suspected for yes. he has the proof for a lot of people speculated and what the whistleblowers talked about so now they can't hide from the truth anymore so what they do is as a leading into this they tried to change the narrative what did this guy tell us snowden that we already know that they're building a two billion dollar facility in bluffdale you or the giant city

sized national security agency facility in fort meade maryland it's a business the business of america used to be business but now it's cyber war and war. snowden's revelations also involve the british intelligence agency g c h q which has been collecting private data from around the world with germany but leave to be among the most watched countries but in officials warn that if the reports are the ramifications would be severe meanwhile peace activists. from the pink from the code pink movement and says the u.s. and u.k. spying activities threaten more than just privacy i think the larger concern is keeping. some political control over germany because the united states has very important military assets in germany the bases here are the most important

in all of europe for the u.s. efforts in formerly in iraq or in presently to some degree in afghanistan africa after calm is the card and. i think that's the reason that germany is more heavily monitored than any other european country that's what the reports say and of course that goes back to the fact that during the entire occupation really up till the early ninety's in any case u.s. military intelligence felt that they had a right to spy on in any german especially in berlin. britain is bracing itself for further belt tightening after the latest budget review unveiled eleven billion pounds with the spending cuts but while an estimated one hundred fifty thousand people are facing redundancy one sector is set for a funding bill used as artists cilla discovered but what's been widely reported as

the biggest winner in this in this review of the budget is the intelligence service that comprises comprises of the m i five am i six and b g c h q which of course we know have been in the spotlight particularly the g c h q after edward snowden be an american who had made revelations on the extent of the kind of spying that the crew have been doing on the u.k. citizens and beyond what they're going to see is a real term increase of more than three percent of the rationale behind it according to all but one is that there is still a continuing threat of terrorism let's get more on this from the intelligence analysts glenmore treanor harvey thank you very much for joining us now first of all in light of edward snowden's revelations it just happened a few days ago we see an increase in the budget of the in particular what does that mean i have to say that i don't think his revelations did have an effect it

just so happens at this time because constraints especially increases take a long time to work hard the thing is of course is that the spotlight is on british intelligence as a result of edward snowden so revelations the whole world is concentrating on what we are doing so it does seem a little on to the general public. it would not have been surprising if they had just kept the budget as it were that would remain constant but with a three percent increase and so first we have the rationale of security this issue is terrorism on the other hand you have the backlash from the revelations of snowden and you have austerity cuts in other sectors which really affected the british people so how how do we view this how was this justified. i am biased in my own rather than having an association with the services yes i think it is i'm

surprised that the extent when you're talking about the g.d.p. of britain increasing by one percent a year to have a three percent increase this is quite extraordinary but it will be seen mediocre comment to say that in the light of snowden's revelations that this is a british government saying. we're not concerned about that we are going to go ahead we're not embarrassed well following edward snowden's revelation that britain surveillance operation extends even further than the american one r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the government is trying to make up excuses for this latest funding based. that's presumably why the british government is spinning it and saying look if we don't do all of this you'll see more british soldiers a british barracks up and down the country being beheaded and for that matter for all to the snowden relegations do we think that the united states is telling britain to be fought their way forward in ways that they do see h.q. budgets because as written is revealed britain is basically spying outpost for the

united states and yet the poorest in society are praying for this will mr obama may be telling osborne and david cameron to do just this before the security services also ahead this hour help with strings attached we investigate whether u.s. and allied qatar's multi-million dollar fund that supposedly for rebuilding efforts have been all teary emotive that is coming up short. i really does are set to meet in brussels in a bid to tackle the ever growing youth unemployment almost a quarter of young people are out of work across the twenty seven nations broke with the numbers hitting up here hitting unprecedented highs in the most debt burden countries of greece and spain let's bring in katie pilbeam now katie can you talk us through the figures yeah absolutely we're talking five point six million young people that are unemployed right now so the last generation this is how

everyone is referring to the five point six million unemployed young people in europe which means the overall youth jobless rate is twenty three percent in greece and spain the situation is even was with use unemployment over fifty percent while these numbers sound pretty bad the consequences are even worse young people who studied hard to achieve the best grades yet don't get to reap the benefits of such dedication are left feeling resentful is towards their countries which can ultimately result in social unrest especially as these energetic young people are not so. afraid of tear gas and stun grenades that they will not voice their discontent on the street also the employment gap on a resume is often seen as a negative for employers added to this the fact that the citizens are more they able to come to be to the growth of their economies puts pressure on the whole financial system so what is being done to avoid total mayhem on the streets of the

shattering of young people's. well the e.u. leaders are plans especially out six billion euros to tackle the escalating problem right so we can all relax the e.u. is on to it plus while the european financial crisis is still in full swing the question is where exactly is this cash coming from where the e.u. leaders agreed back in february that they with set aside the money from the twenty fourteen twenty twenty budget for the youth guarantee projects but this is yet to be approved by the european parliament one anonymous official says i'm not overwhelmingly optimistic when he was asked if it would be discussed today so good intentions but no policy in place yet to deal with the situation and even if this money is finally found it may not be enough since it has recently turned out that the south european states are not alone in their misery while overall unemployment may be lower in scandinavia for example in sweden the jobless rate is eight point

seven percent well below the e.u. average of eleven baht young people make up the bulk of the unemployment rate so the more time the ministers take to come up with the cash to solve the problem the more problems will be caused by the shattered dreams of the restless young thank you katie. dr barbara cohn president of the high institute in vienna says the current european political structures are doing nothing to tackle the problem of youth unemployment. you have to do something with these young kids that are on the street for example in greece the young the youth unemployment is makes up more than three point three percent of g.d.p. this is a tremendous amount of money that needs to be put into into these young kids in order to prevent them from going to the streets and they understand that things

have been have gone wrong in this country they know that they that the system needs to change definitely that structural reforms need to be made and that they need to take their fate in their own hands the labor laws that we have seen in europe are just not flexible at all and they really do not support employment as a matter of fact they are against employment if no measures are taken no right measures are taken that really work out it could get. barack obama has begun a tour three african countries in a bid to strengthen america's diplomatic and trade ties with the continent but many locals are frustrated over the slashing of u.s. aid to africa during obama's presidency and u.s. military operations in the region have also rise to anger. reports. right

now africa is in the center of america's so-called war on terror we hear about new drone bases popping up on the african continent in countries whose governments we see aid from the us in one form or another we hear about the u.s. army in training security forces in a number of states in africa then we learn how some of those forces commit most horrible atrocities and get the u.s. doesn't stop to take a second look at who they empower just a few most recent examples say you when we poor found us train troops in congo guilty of mass rape and other trustees human rights watch released a report documenting the abuse rape and torture of at least one thousand somali refugees by u.s. backed kenyan police forces this follows a report by the open society justice initiative that connected u.s. counterterrorism and influence to systematic human rights abuses in kenya and uganda then you have secretary of state john kerry himself expressing quote deep concern around human rights abuses committed by the nigerian military a major u.s.

counterterror partner his statement says gross human rights violations committed by nigerian security forces only escalate the violence and fuel extremism in washington sees what's going on but doesn't really change their calculations i spoke with the editor of pan african newswire by you know me as they may say that they are there to enhance the african states national security capacity but we know from the history of the united states that they do nothing i regard their foreign policy there's no real strategic interest for the united states. or maintaining a relationship with all these different states and at the same time to edge out the people's republic of china which is pretty considerable amount. just over the last. few years that china has become the number one. trading partners of

the african union africa is an extremely rich continent the chase for terrorists may not be the only reason the u.s. wants to have as much presence as possible there take a listen to what mr azikiwe said about that many of the countries in west africa a large oil producer for example nigeria which is the largest u.s. importer. of oil into the united states from africa in east africa they have been a huge finding. all that natural gas all along the eastern coast of africa from somalia all the way down to tanzania so this in my opinion explains why we have this escalation of u.s. military intervention only after time so backlash in the form of extremism on the one end of the scale and ten jubal benefits on the other that could be the dilemma that the u.s. is weighing in africa now but as we've seen reports about gross human rights

violations haven't stopped us from partnering up with use of government in washington i'm going to check out. social media has been a k. driving force for the recent public dissent across to could that online activity backfire on the protestors facebook has played down that playing it hasn't passed any user data to the securities despite government quest that is after one of its ministers said ankara had been working closely with the social networking site you can read more about this at r.t. dot com also that the town of west in texas which suffered a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in a pretty soon the facilities get the details on the looming legal battle at our website. at least two people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured in face clash. between supporters and

opponents of egypt's president mohammed morsi writing broke out in the northern city of mansoor as the leader was preparing for a national address marking his first year in power amid a wave of fresh calls for him to step down artie's bill true brings us the latest. bun store is a nile delta city this a few hours drive from the capital to have been put on the street battles between those in support of the president and those the against the president said the addiction police are desperately trying to contain the violence using tear gas they have been reports of bird shot but it is related weapons and fire bombs and this clash it started when no supporters all the missing brotherhood group which the president hails from decided to have a protest off the off to mean price i'm witnessing slightly conflicts reports said that the local residents attacked the moves of a good group or thugs who are against the islamist group these countries continue to rage on the people really saying it's not going to end anytime soon the people

here across the nation is stealing them selves in the run up to a nationwide protest expected on sunday the anniversary of the president say these said demonstrations were called for by coalition of opposition position groups who actually want president morsi to step down they said right now no dialogue president mohamed morsi in his speech did little to assuage the fears he did admit that the year has been very tough for the presidency and that he himself had made mistakes although he failed to go into the details of these mistakes he spotted controversy in his speech by saying basically targeting his own position people against him and in particular talking about what should teach who was his rifle in the presidential elections going into very specifics about the corruption of a mention feet he also controversy once again praised the police in his speech at the police of the touristy here in egypt we've seen an increase in amount of violence from the security forces over the course of the last year resulting in

many deaths people here in the presidency praising the security forces is not something the very pleased with what people are really worried is that if they buy into coffee this is going on in the week that it will only get worse in the in the lead up to the anniversary protests and. teemu with private jets on the rise and a quick look now at other news from around the world in brazil street battles have flared up between protesters and police near a stadium hosting a confederations cup football match the clashes began after tens of thousands tried to march to the ground but world blocked by security forces who opened fire with rubber bullets and tear gas the country is in the grip of the leg of the largest anti-government protests in decades demanding better social services. the tunisian court has freed three european members of the activist group them in jail for staging a topless protest the first of its kind in the arab world they were arrested while performing their stand side

a courtroom in the capital tunis in may seeking the release of a fellow chinese activist the three had been sentenced to four months in prison after being convicted of public indecency and threatening public order. on the israeli government has given the go ahead for the construction of sixty nine new housing units in east jerusalem the move could derail washington's efforts to revive peace negotiations between israelis and palestinians u.s. secretary of state john kerry is meeting leaders from both sides later today to try to clinch an agreement to renew the talks which broke down three years ago more than half a million israelis now live on land that palestinians see their own amid continuing settlement construction deemed illegal under international rule. and while it may be tough for palestinians in the west bank they are getting a helping hand cata is pouring millions of dollars to rebuild garza with the ruling

anti israeli hamas troop happy to emerge from isolation investigates what exactly such warm ties a bad start. israel destroys and qatar rebuilds that's the message in gaza where streets damaged by israeli tanks are now being repaved with khatami many. catastrophe twenty one projects of the same time so there are a lot of new jobs it's simple mathematics give people food homes and cash and they'll support you no matter what. israel is worried by the growing relationship between cantarell and hamas israel is concerned because it is strengthening hamas and hamas is getting more military and political power projects like this are part of the four hundred million dollars pledged by the emir of qatar last october it was the biggest injection of reconstruction aid for gaza after parts of it were

devastated during the last wars with israel for years the tiny arabian gulf nation has supported the palestinians but observers took note when she hunted been highly felt tiny chose to visit gaza and not the palestinian leadership in the west bank he was also the first head of state to visit the strip since hamas branded terrorists by israel took over six years ago the manly mostly to support the population in order to gain back their well you know it is to continue serving missiles from their backyard into israel lawyers in this is radio civil rights organization devote their time to going off to states they came to sponsor terrorism qatar is right up there five years ago after the last israel lebanon war they bought a civil lawsuit against the qatari funded al jazeera channel what they do zero was doing is they're broadcasting live from the places where the risk they were falling and that they were aiming the hizbollah so more accurately point

out their missile for them and they called the marketeers freedom fighters so that was a. no doubt no question at that as there was that then to the calls of his but for such a small country qatar yield significant financial and political blow bill count it was qatari reels that financed a promoted to the islamist opposition forces that overthrew moama gadhafi in libya that the muslim brotherhood in egypt and is now banqueting the free syrian army in syria. we see that cats are trying to control the region and we saw this in libya and egypt and of course in syria qatar has goals qatar is part of a plan that wants to change the arab world but not towards democracy in the arab profits because cats are itself is not a democracy and people there have no freedom. and from the sidelines the u.s.

calmly watches keeping mum because of its wasted interest in qatar that outdated military base oil and defense cooperation it's not that the israelis are unaware of what is happening across the border they know full well qatar is financing and israel activities right under their noses but with the us keeping quiet prime minister netanyahu doesn't really have anyone to complain to policy r.t. tel aviv. i'm back in half an hour's time the headlines coming up next i hear on our tapes that prime interest and i look into the f.b.i. clamp down on pick going to this. interview her.